Julia Mary Black CBE FBA (born 29 January 1967) is the strategic director of innovation and a professor of law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
In 1994, she completed her DPhil at Lincoln College, Oxford, with a thesis on Conduct of Business Rules in the financial sector.
[11] She has written extensively on regulatory issues in a number of areas,[1] including financial regulation and was a part of a high-level steering group of experts working on a review of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) chaired by former president of the British Academy and World Bank Chief Economist, Lord Nicholas Stern.
[15] She has been a senior independent member of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), which is responsible for research and innovation funding in the UK, since 2017[16] and is also a member of the Council of Science and Technology,[17] which advises the prime minister on science and technology policy issues across government, and recently joined the board of governors of the Courtauld Institute of Art.
[4] In recognition of her work, Black was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to the study of law and regulation.